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Oddly, as a number of more objective critics have pointed out, Clinton's bill was "a compromise between market-oriented and government-centered reform ideas," (Carter 116). Although Clinton was concerned with creating a national healthcare system, he was also concerned with eliminating the federal budget crisis that he had inherited. The result was that Clinton offered a stepwise approach towards a socialistic healthcare system with an initial period, at least, of allowing the market to share some of the burden of insuring so many Americans. Doubtlessly, this is not to say that Clinton's plan would necessarily have been successful; merely that the reasons for which it was attacked and subsequently defeated were largely unfounded.
Overall, the true threat that the Clinton healthcare plan posed was to the Republicans. If Clinton had been successful in passing his bill, the legitimacy of the Democratic Party would have been restored;...
This represented a very grave problem for the Republicans, who had managed to cash-in on the middle-class' concern for Christian propriety and family values in earlier elections. In this way, universal healthcare was the Democrat's trump card: they could address the economic and health problems of the lower classes, which could possibly be more truly viewed as matters appropriate for public debate; as opposed to divorce, gay marriage, and even abortion. In general, the Clinton administration failed to adequately weather the storm of attack through the media and therefore lost the support of those already insured.
Works Cited
Carter, Dan. "Rightward Currents: Bill Clinton and the Politics of the 1990s." From the Clinton Riddle edited by Todd G. Shields. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004.…
Works Cited
Carter, Dan. "Rightward Currents: Bill Clinton and the Politics of the 1990s." From the Clinton Riddle edited by Todd G. Shields. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pages 111-134.
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